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InterOil Announces First Quarter 2006 Financial Results

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - May 15, 2006) - InterOil Corporation (TSX:IOL) (AMEX:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC), a Canadian company with operations in Papua New Guinea today announced that its unaudited financial statements and accompanying notes for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, and the related management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A") were filed with the relevant Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Copies of InterOil's filed documents may be obtained through SEDAR at www.sedar.com or on InterOil's website at www.interoil.com.

InterOil plans to hold a conference call on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 08:15 a.m. Eastern to review its financial and operational results for the quarter ended March 31, 2006. The conference call phone number is (800) 553-0349 for U.S. callers and (612) 332-0819 for international callers. You may listen to the conference by using the following link http://mail.interoil.com/conference/index2.htm followed by clicking on one of the links as indicated. Alternatively, you may visit our website where a direct link to the conference call has been provided.

The duration of the conference call will be approximately 45 minutes. We are inviting participants in the conference to direct any questions you may have regarding our operations and financials for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 by e-mail, to Anesti@interoil.com at least one hour prior to the commencement of the conference call. We will endeavour to answer all questions, time permitting. We will also post a Q&A Sheet on our website following the conference call for your perusal.

InterOil is developing a vertically integrated energy company whose primary focus is Papua New Guinea and the surrounding region. Its assets comprise an oil refinery, upstream petroleum exploration licenses, and retail and commercial distribution assets. The majority of the refined products from InterOil's refinery are secured by off-take contracts with Shell and InterOil's wholly-owned subsidiary, InterOil Products Limited. BP Singapore is InterOil's agent for crude oil supplied to the refinery. InterOil is also undertaking an extensive petroleum exploration program within its eight million acre license area located in Papua New Guinea. InterOil is widely recognized as being the largest value added processing facility in PNG and has existing infrastructure that can complement the onshore processing facilities for natural gas. InterOil announced on May 5, 2006 the closing of transactions worth US$130 million to secure the early development and processing of natural gas liquids and LNG processing in PNG.

InterOil's common shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol IOL in Canadian dollar and on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol IOC in US dollars. For more information please see the InterOil website at: www.interoil.com.

Cautionary Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined in U.S. federal and Canadian securities laws. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included in this release are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding our drilling plans, plans for expanding our business segments, business strategy, plans and objectives for future operations, future capital and other expenditures, and those statements preceded by, followed by or that otherwise include the words "may," "plans'" "believe," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "estimates" or similar expressions or variations on such expressions. Each forward-looking statement reflects our current view of future events and is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from any results expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the ability of our refinery to operate at full capacity and to operate profitability; uncertainty involving the geology of oil and gas deposits and reserve estimates; delays and changes in plans with respect to exploration or development projects or capital expenditures; political, legal and economic risks related to Papua New Guinea; the impact of competition; the volatility of prices for crude oil and the volatility of the difference between our purchase price of crude oil feedstocks and the sales price of our refined products; the uncertainty of our ability to attract capital; and the risks described under the heading "Risk Factors" in our 2005 Annual Information Form dated March 31, 2006.

Although we believe that the assumptions underlying our forward-looking statements are reasonable, any of the assumptions could be inaccurate, and, therefore, we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements included in this MD&A will prove to be accurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in our forward-looking statements, the inclusion of such information should not be regarded as a representation by us or any other person that our objectives and plans will be achieved. Except as may be required by applicable law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update or advise of any change in any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Our forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement.

We currently have no reserves as defined in Canadian National Instrument 51-101 Standards of Disclosure for Oil and Gas Activities. All information contained herein regarding resources are references to undiscovered resources under Canadian National Instrument 51-101, whether stated or not.